George Orwell certainly foresaw Bush administration

November 23, 2007|Linda Ribner, Lauderhill

George Orwell must be either laughing or crying in his grave. The article on page 11A, "Intelligence official says anonymity is gone in U.S.," says it all. It is now acceptable for "Big Brother" to spy upon U.S. citizens at will.

The crimes against our citizens and our Constitution, once considered impeachable offenses (see Richard M. Nixon), are now the norm. Our spineless, terrified Democrats in Congress (see Dianne Feinstein, for one), are enabling the Bush White House to carry on a deliberate and systematic demolition of our civil liberties, and look the other way when the crucial votes are needed to turn this ongoing horror around.

In the last throes of his ill-begotten presidency, George Bush and his puppeteer Cheney have managed to destroy the fabric of our great country. Although there is anger and frustration among our citizens, it will take many years to fix what Bush/Cheney have wrought.

Perhaps we should re-incarnate Mr. Orwell, so that he might write another novel to tell us what our future now holds, since he was so dead-on in penning 1984. Then, we could run him for president as an independent; he would win in a landslide.